NASA has released an updated exploration framework to guide the budding Artemis lunar program toward human missions to Mars and beyond.

Using a cadre of advanced technologies, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission is closing in on executing the world’s first-ever attempt at demonstrating whether a spacecraft can slam into an asteroid with enough force to prevent it from destructively colliding with the Earth given adequate warning.

Brian Binnie, who clinched the $10 million Ansari XPrize for the Paul Allen-Scaled Composites team that built the SpaceShipOne reusable suborbital spacecraft, has died, his family announced on Sept. 18.

NASA launch controllers will implement new procedures as they head into a Sept. 21 launch demonstration test of the repairs to a hydrogen propellant leak that prompted a delay in a second attempt to launch the uncrewed Artemis I test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule.

Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who holds the record for the longest single mission in space at 437 days, died on Sept. 7, Roscosmos Corp. reports.

Astroport Space Technologies is developing a system of baking Moon dust into bricks to create a landing pad on the lunar surface.

In a little more than a year, a moratorium on new safety regulations to protect people onboard space vehicles is set to expire,

NASA has formally requested proposals from the space industry for long-running, evolvable Human Landing Systems able to support a steady cadence of Artemis-era astronaut missions to the lunar surface.